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Deng X, Liu YX, Yang ZZ, Zhao YF, Xu YT, Fu MY, Shen Y, Qu K, Guan Z, Tong WY, Zhang YY, Chen BB, Zhong N, Xiang PH, Duan CG. Spatial evolution of the proton-coupled Mott transition in correlated oxides for neuromorphic computing. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadk9928. [PMID: 38820158 PMCID: PMC11141630 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk9928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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The proton-electron coupling effect induces rich spectrums of electronic states in correlated oxides, opening tempting opportunities for exploring novel devices with multifunctions. Here, via modest Pt-aided hydrogen spillover at room temperature, amounts of protons are introduced into SmNiO3-based devices. In situ structural characterizations together with first-principles calculation reveal that the local Mott transition is reversibly driven by migration and redistribution of the predoped protons. The accompanying giant resistance change results in excellent memristive behaviors under ultralow electric fields. Hierarchical tree-like memory states, an instinct displayed in bio-synapses, are further realized in the devices by spatially varying the proton concentration with electric pulses, showing great promise in artificial neural networks for solving intricate problems. Our research demonstrates the direct and effective control of proton evolution using extremely low electric field, offering an alternative pathway for modifying the functionalities of correlated oxides and constructing low-power consumption intelligent devices and neural network circuits.
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- Xing Deng
- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Center of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Materials and Devices, Department of Electronics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Chen H, Dong M, Hu Y, Lin T, Zhang Q, Guo EJ, Gu L, Wu J, Lu Q. Protonation-Induced Colossal Chemical Expansion and Property Tuning in NdNiO 3 Revealed by Proton Concentration Gradient Thin Films. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:8983-8990. [PMID: 36331193 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Protonation can be used to tune diverse physical and chemical properties of functional oxides. Although protonation of nickelate perovskites has been reported, details on the crystal structure of the protonated phase and a quantitative understanding of the effect of protons on physical properties are still lacking. Therefore, in this work, we select NdNiO3 (NNO) as a model system to understand the protonation process from pristine NNO to protonated HxNdNiO3 (H-NNO). We used a reliable electrochemical method with well-defined reference electrode to trigger the protonation-induced phase transition. We found that the protonated H-NNO phase showed a colossal ∼13% lattice expansion caused by a large tilt of NiO6 octahedra and displacement of Nd cations. Importantly, we further designed a novel device configuration to induce a gradient of proton concentration into a single NNO thin film to establish a quantitative correlation between the proton concentration and the lattice constant and transport property of H-NNO.
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- Haowen Chen
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
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- School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, People's Republic of China
- Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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Amarasinghe DK, Yu H, Rodolakis F, Zhou H, Cao H, Ramanathan S. Electron doping of NdNiO3 thin films using dual chamber CaH2 annealing. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Zhou X, Li H, Meng F, Mao W, Wang J, Jiang Y, Fukutani K, Wilde M, Fugetsu B, Sakata I, Chen N, Chen J. Revealing the Role of Hydrogen in Electron-Doping Mottronics for Strongly Correlated Vanadium Dioxide. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:8078-8085. [PMID: 35997491 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Hydrogen-associated electron-doping Mottronics for d-band correlated oxides (e.g., VO2) opens up a new paradigm to regulate the electronic functionality via directly manipulating the orbital configuration and occupancy. Nevertheless, the role of hydrogen in the Mottronic transition of VO2 is yet unclear because opposite orbital reconfigurations toward either the metallic or highly insulating states were both reported. Herein, we demonstrate the root cause for such hydrogen-induced multiple electronic phase transitions by 1H quantification using nuclear reaction analysis. A low hydrogenation temperature is demonstrated to be vital in achieving a large hydrogen concentration (nH ≈ 1022 cm-3) that further enhances the t2g orbital occupancy to trigger electron localizations. In contrast, elevating the hydrogenation temperatures surprisingly reduces nH to ∼1021 cm-3 but forms more stable metallic H0.06VO2. This leads to the recognition of a weaker hydrogen interaction that triggers electron localization within VO2 via Mottronically enhancing the orbital occupancies.
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- Xuanchi Zhou
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
- School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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- School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
- Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
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- School of Renewable Energy, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 China
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Resonant neutron reflectometry for hydrogen detection. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1486. [PMID: 35304444 PMCID: PMC8933405 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29092-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The detection and quantification of hydrogen is becoming increasingly important in research on electronic materials and devices, following the identification of the hydrogen content as a potent control parameter for the electronic properties. However, establishing quantitative correlations between the hydrogen content and the physical properties of solids remains a formidable challenge. Here we report neutron reflectometry experiments on 50 nm thick niobium films during hydrogen loading, and show that the momentum-space position of a prominent waveguide resonance allows tracking of the absolute hydrogen content with an accuracy of about one atomic percent on a timescale of less than a minute. Resonance-enhanced neutron reflectometry thus allows fast, direct, and non-destructive measurements of the hydrogen concentration in thin-film structures, with sensitivity high enough for real-time in-situ studies. The detection and quantification of hydrogen is becoming increasingly important in research on electronic materials and devices. Here the authors show that waveguide resonances enhance the sensitivity of neutron reflectometry, enabling fast, direct, and nondestructive measurements of hydrogen incorporation in thin-film structures.
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Li B, Li L, Ren H, Lu Y, Peng F, Chen Y, Hu C, Zhang G, Zou C. Photoassisted Electron-Ion Synergic Doping Induced Phase Transition of n-VO 2/p-GaN Thin-Film Heterojunction. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:43562-43572. [PMID: 34468117 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c10401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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As a typical correlated metal oxide, vanadium dioxide (VO2) shows specific metal-insulator transition (MIT) properties and demonstrates great potential applications in ultrafast optoelectronic switch, resistive memory, and neuromorphic devices. Effective control of the MIT process is essential for improving the device performance. In the current study, we have first proposed a photoassisted ion-doping method to modulate the phase transition of the VO2 layer based on the photovoltaic effect and electron-ion synergic doping in acid solution. Experimental results show that, for the prepared n-VO2/p-GaN nanojunction, this photoassisted strategy can effectively dope the n-VO2 layer by H+, Al3+, or Mg2+ ions under light radiation and trigger consecutive insulator-metal-insulator transitions. If combined with standard lithography or electron beam etching processes, selective doping with nanoscale size area can also be achieved. This photoassisted doping method not only shows a facile route for MIT modulation via a doping route under ambient conditions but also supplies some clues for photosensitive detection in the future.
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- Bowen Li
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology, NUDT, Hefei 230037, P. R. China
- Infrared and Low Temperature Plasma Key Laboratory of Anhui Province, NUDT, Hefei 230037, P. R. China
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- Center for Micro- and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
- Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, P. R. China
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Electric noise spectroscopy is a non-destructive and a very sensitive method for studying the dynamic behaviors of the charge carriers and the kinetic processes in several condensed matter systems, with no limitation on operating temperatures. This technique has been extensively used to investigate several perovskite compounds, manganese oxides (La1−xSrxMnO3, La0.7Ba0.3MnO3, and Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3), and a double perovskite (Sr2FeMoO6), whose properties have recently attracted great attention. In this work are reported the results from a detailed electrical transport and noise characterizations for each of the above cited materials, and they are interpreted in terms of specific physical models, evidencing peculiar properties, such as quantum interference effects and charge density waves.
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